Today was the end of our incredible 5 week journey across continental Europe. The remainder of the summer, we will be living at Worcester College (which is one of many colleges that make up Oxford University). We drove our last few hundred miles on the bus to the coast and took the Channel Tunnel Train to the UK. From there we drove to Oxford and committed our travel-weary bodies to semi-permanent residence there.
Being an engineer, I feel the need to describe the channel tunnel to you. It is definitely one of the greatest engineering feats in the world. So I’ll start with the obvious—this is a 32 mile tunnel that runs under the English Channel. Perhaps the coolest part is how we got on the train. We were on a full-sized coach bus and drove into the train station. We then proceeded to drive onto the train. The train took us and the bus under the channel where we then drove off the train and to Oxford. Cool, huh?
I’m going to wait for a few weeks before I write about Oxford. Since I have so much time here, I want to give myself time to feel out what it is like to live here. This is the end of daily blog entries for the trip. Since we will be at Oxford and taking classes, not too many noteworthy things will happen each day. I will continue to write periodic entries, however, particularly for the many weekend trips that I plan to make.
